Compliance

August 18, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Struggling air carrier Northwest Airlines got the green light Monday from federal officials to contribute stock to its three defined benefit pension plans...

August 15, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Kimble Glass, Inc. and the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) have just inked a deal to send employment discrimination claims to voluntary...

August 15, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - State Street, the firm brought on to manage Enron's retirement plans after its collapse, is asking a US bankruptcy judge for $4 million...

August 14, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A company cannot sue its institutional investors over a financial discrepancy disclosure following a merger.

August 14, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - An employer has a fiduciary responsibility to ensure the timely enrollment of employees that request coverage in a company's ERISA-governed medical plan.

August 14, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A national hair salon chain has agreed to pay $3.5 million to settle race discrimination charges that a manager was fired for refusing...

August 14, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Charging that white employees of Caterpillar Inc. whistled at their African American counterparts "as if they were dogs," federal officials have filed two...

August 13, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A former company executive's claims that his termination caused a loss of retirement benefits is not preempted by ERISA.

August 13, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Even though Louisiana health insurances already labor under 31 mandated health benefits, they won't get any more required coverages for four years.

August 13, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Believing health plan participant lives may be at risk, Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Mark McClellan, is urging the city of Springfield,...

December 20, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal jury says the nation's largest private employer has been forcing workers to work unpaid overtime.

December 20, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The state of Hawaii's public pension fund is changing the way state worker benefits are figured and paid out and some public unions...

December 20, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The federal pension insurer has worked out a deal to transfer a pension plan sponsored by a former Global Crossing unit to a...

November 20, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Plan sponsors have almost another year to comply with GUST tax law changes, according to an Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announcement.

August 11, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The California State Teachers' Retirement System (CalSTRS) will be getting back $500 million it is owed under a recently passed state Assembly bill.

August 11, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Autoerotic asphyxiation has been deemed an intentional self-inflicted injury and thus is not entitled to coverage under an accidental death and dismemberment (AD&D)...

August 11, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The US Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case to determine whether a doctor whose pension plan was ordered by the US...

September 20, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Securities and Exchange Commission took another step toward transparency yesterday, voting unanimously in support of a new rule that would require mutual...

September 20, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A provider that violated the terms of a qualified domestic relations order (QDRO) was liable for a restoration of the benefits to the...

September 20, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Multinational US companies can be taken to task in American courts for helping those committing human rights violations abroad, a federal appeals court...